Non-refillable bottle.



E. F. DEETER.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I0, I9I-2.

1,262,757. Patnted Apr. 16, 1918.

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E. F. DEE'TER'.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10. 1-912.

Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

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ELI/[ER F. DEETEB, 0F DAYTON, OHIO.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

Application filed June 10, 1912. Serial No. 702,710.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER F. DEETER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in NonRefillable Bottles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the class of receptacles commonly called non-refillable bottles, the principal object of which is indicated by the name. Other objects are to provide means for removing the contents of the bottle in any desired quantity; to construct the stopple mechanism in such manner that the number of times it can .be operated for removing contents from the bottle is unlimited; to construct a bottle which has suitable vents to facilitate removal of its contents.

The accompanying drawings show several diiferent constructions, none of which will be designated as preferred, as each of the forms has certain features which, under certain circumstances, would commend it.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation with the parts in position for discharging the contents of the recess.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation with the parts in'position for filling the recess.

Fig. 2 is a sectional detail showing the position of pawl 40 relative to stem 31 when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 3 is a plan section on line 3-3, Fig. shown 1 when the stopple is in the position in said figure.

Fig. 4 is an elevation of the stopple.

Fig. 5 is an elevation'cf the plate 30 and post 31.

Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation of a modified construction.

Fig. 7 is a view of the lower surface of the cover in Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation of still another modification.

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary view of a portion of the cover and stopple, showing the ratchet and the pawl t prevent'backward movement of the stopple. V V

Fig. 9 is an elevation of the stopple shown in Fig. 6.

Fig. 10 i a sectional plan of the structure in 6.

Fig. 11 is a plan of the stopple shown in Fig. 6.

Fig. 12 i an irregular sectional plan,

.tudinal movement.

taken on the different levels; namely, A, B, and C of Fig. 8, the parts being shown in position for discharging from the recess. The construction in this figure differs from that in Fig. 8 in that provision is made for turning thestopple backward far enough to close the outlet without reopening the inlets.

Fig. 13 is a view of the same parts on the same levels as in Fig. 12, showing the'position of the parts when-the stopple has been turned backward.

Similar numerals indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring now to Figs. 1 to 5, 25 is the upper part of a vessel,it may be a bottle, jar or other type of vessel. The neck 26 is cylindrical and has passages 27 at the bottom and passages 28 near the top. The lower portion of the neck is contracted by an inwardly projecting bead 29, upon which rests and is rigidly secured, a disk or plate '30 having a central, upwardly extending post 31. v

Upon the periphery of the post a continuous groove, comprising four longitudinal sections and four connecting annular sec 33 and 34: respectively. r A cylindrlcal member 36, which for want of a, better name will be called the stopple' is placed in the neck and allowed to rest upon the' plate 30. The stopple, while fitting the neck closely, is free to rotate therein. A piston 37 fits the interior of the stopple closely, although permitted longi- An operatingstem 38 extends upward from the piston, and is made hollow to receive the post 31. A. rib 39 on the inside of the stopple, fitting in a groove in the piston, prevents the piston rotating in the stopple. A spring pressed plunger 10, incased in. a suitable pocket formed in the piston slides in the groove 32-33-34. The connecting sections 33 and 34: have teeth in their bottoms, and the end of the plunger is beveled sothat it will engage said teeth. The teeth all face inthe same direction, and therefore all rotary movements of the stopple must be in one direction. as will presently be more fullyexplained. v V.

A cover il having a hole just the right size for the operating stem to pass throu h is placed in the neck and locked therein iy an "expanding ring 42. This ring, which practically lying upon the end of the stopple, the ring will be opposite the groove formed in the neck, into which its inclination to expand causes it to enter. The depth of the groove in the neck being less than the thickness of the ring, part of the ring will remain in the cover, thereby locking the lid in place.

Inlets l3 and outlets 44: are formed in thestopple and are so placed with reference to the passages 27 and 28 that when the inlets are opposite the passages 27 the outlets are midway between the passages 28. This is the position of the parts in Fig. 2.

The space between the piston and the cover will hereinafter be called the recess. Suppose when the parts are in the position shownin Figs. 2 and 2 the receptacle be inclined so the recess is below the level'of the contents of the vessel 25, one of the passages 27 being directly above the other, Obviously some of the contents will flow into the recess, while the air which is being displaced in the recess will pass through the upper inlet 43 and passage 27 into the vessel. W hen the desired amount has been poured into the recess the operating stem is rotated, the teeth in groove 3%, Fig. 3,

bei'ng'so faced as to permit this rotation,

which first closes the inlets by removing them from opposite the passages 27, and finally opens the outlets by bringing them opposite the passages 28. In pouring the contents from the recess one of the passages is used as a vent. I

y The operation is as follows: Starting with the parts in the position shown in Fig. 2, the inlets 48 being in register with V passages 27 and the piston in its lowest position, fluid may be poured from the bottle to the recess. The outlets a l are not in regis- .ter with passages 28, being ninety degrees removed therefrom, so the recess is isolated from the exterior. The position of the pawl 4-0 at this time is shown in Fig. 2 and, keeping in mind that post 31 is stationary, that pawl 40 is carried by the piston and that the piston and stopple are bound to rotate in unison, it is evident that the pistonand stopple can rotate in but one direction, the. ratchet teeth in groove 3-.l preventing them turning" backward, and that they can only rotate until the pawl reaches the end of the slot The pawl will then be at the lower end of a longitudinal groove and the outlets 44c in registration with passages 28, t s in 3. Before the outlets at tain registration with passages28, however, inlets 43 will have been removed from registration with recesses 27, so that the recess 'is never simultaneously in communication with the interior and exterior of the bottle. There is now but one way in which to again bring the inlets into registration with recesses 27. The piston must first be raised to the top of the recess. Fig. 1 shows it ascending. There is now no possibility of rotating the piston. or st-opple either way until the pawl t0 enters the groove 38 at the top of the post. The piston may be re ciprocated in the recess but the groove 32 confines the pawl and prevents its rotation. If thepiston be pushed back to the groove (l-Kl the teeth in the groove prevent it rotating. Therefore it is absolutely necessary to raise the piston to a point where the pawl can enter groove and as the parts are so proportioned that the pawl cannot enter the grove unless the piston is against the lid. -l-1 it is clear that none of the contents of the recess can be allowed to remain. The recess is annihilated and therefore can contain nothing. The piston can now be rotated, the pawl e0 traversing the groove 33'seen in Fig. 1 until it reaches the longitudinal groove in the center of the post in Fig. 1, the stopple of course rotating in unison with the piston and bringing inlets l3 into registration with recesses 27 as in l? The teeth in groove 33 prevent the piston rotating backward and the only movement now possible is to press the piston to the bottom of the recess, thus completing the cycle and returning the parts to the position shown in Fig. 2. I

It would be possible to introduce foreign substanceinto the passages 28 and the outlets, and the quantity contained in the outlets between the piston and the wall of the neck could thereby be introduced into the vessel. This could, by making the wallof the'stopple quite thin,*be limited to a very small quantity. ltloreover, in another form of construction, which I will nowdescribe,

this cannot be done.

Referring to Figs. 8, 12 and 13 the stopple comprises a cylindrical member 50 having; an. integral bottom 51. The stopple fits the neck closely, rests upon the head 29 and is free to rotate in the neck. The cylindrical part of the stopple, which in this construction may be as thick as necessary to give strength, is divided into two parts by slots 52, extending from the top of the stopple to the bottom. 1

The piston 53, fitting the interior of the stopple closely, has projections 5 which fit closely in the slots 5.1. compelling the piston and stopple to rotate as av unit while permitting longitudinal movement of-the piston. The operating stem 55, forming part of the piston, has a groove 56, similar to the groove A cover having a hole for-the operating stem to pass through, is locked inthe'neck 26 in the manner already described. It is prevented from turning by a projection .61 (see Fig. 8) which lies in a notch formed in the upper edge of the neck. Pins 62 projecting inwardly from the walls of the hole through which the stem 55 passes lie in the groove 56. The under surface of the cover has a circular succession of teeth 63, similar to those shown in Fig. 7, and a spring pawl 6% lying in a pocket formed in the top of the stopple engages these teeth. The pawl and its position in the pocket is shown in Fig. 8

The operation of this form of construction is substantially the same as that first described. The slots 52 perform the double function of inlet and outlet: when they face the passages 28, as in Fig. 12 they are midway between the passages 27 turning the stopple one-fourth of a revolution brings the slots opposite the passages 27 and midway passages 28. The pawl 64 and teeth 63 perform the same function as the plunger 19 and the teeth in grooves 33 and 34. The projections on the piston come flush with the exterior of the stopple and their faces are large enough to cover the passages 28. For this reason, when the piston is raised to rotate the stopple-the projections fill the part of the slots 52 opposite the passages 28 and prevent the slightest amount of anything being trapped and carried around with the stopple. c

In Figs. 12 and 13 the pocket 65 is longer than the pawl 64, which permitsa limited retrograde movement of the s'topple,- enough to close the outlets but not enough to open the inlets. The two positions are shown in these two figures. This is useful if all the contents of the recess are not to be removed at one time, as it enables the outlets to be opened or closed at will.

The construction of the style shown in Fig. 6 differs from the one just described principally in the manner of constructing the cover and operating stem. The stem has two passages, and 71, which, when the slots 72 (see Figs. 9 and 11) are midway between the passages 27, face passages 73 formed in the lid, passage 7 0 forming a vent and 71 an outlet. The sameratchet and pawl construction being employed as is shown in Figs. 12 and 13, the recess may be opened and closed at will. This style of construction is operated in the same manner as those already described.

Having shown and described several forms of embodiment of my invention, and being aware that other modifications may be made without departing from the scope of my invention, I claim:

1. A non-refillable receptacle comprising in combination: a vessel having an opening,

a stopple for the opening having a recess with a fixed capacity, and means for locking the stopple in the opening; means for establishing communication between the recess and either the interior or the exterior of the vessel, means which. prevents contemporaneous communication between the re cess and both interior and exterior, and means which compels the exclusion of all contents from the recess before it canbe placed in communication with the interior of the vessel.

2. A non-refillable receptacle comprising in combination: a vessel having an opening, a stopple for the opening having a recess with a fixed capacity, and means for look ing the stopple in the opening; means for establishing communication between the recess and either the interior or the exterior of the vessel, means which prevents contemporaneous communication between the recess and both interior and exterior, and means which prevents the recess being placed in communication with the interiorof the vessel while any contents remains in the recess. I

3. A non-refillable receptacle comprising in combination: a vessel having an opening, a stopple for the opening having a recess with a fixed capacity, and means for locking the stopple in the opening; means for establishing communication between the recess and either the interior or the exterior of the vessel, means which prevents contemporaneous communication between the recess and both interior and exterior, and means whereby the means by which. communication is established with the interior of the vessel is inoperative as long as any contents remains in the recess. 1

4. A non-refillable bottle comprising in combination: a vessel having an opening, a stopple for the opening, having a recess with xed capacity, means for locking the stopple in the opening, means for establish.- ing communication between the recess and the interior or exterior of the vessel, means which prevents contemporaneous communication between the recess and both interior and exterior, means for compelling exclusion of the contents of the recess before the recess can be placed in communication with the interior, and means preventing introduction of anything into the recess from without after the contents has been excluded.

5. A non-refillable receptacle comprising in combination: a vessel having an opening, a stopple for the opening'having a recess with a fixed capacity, and means for locking the stopple in the opening; meansfor establishing communication between the recess and either the interior or the exterior of the vessel, means which prevents contemporaneous communication between the recess and both interior and exterior, and means for cutting off. communication with the exterior by annihilating the recess, and means for recreating therecess and placing it in communication with the. interior of the receptacle.-v

6. Anon-refillable receptacle comprising in combination: a vessel having an opening, a stopple closing said opening-while being capable of rotation therein, and means for locking the stopplein the opening; a recess formed in the stopple, said recess being closed at the top and the bottom, the latter closure being a piston capable of movement to the top ofebut remaining wholly within the recess; one or more inlets which may, by rotating the stopple, be opened or closed by being brought into Or out of registration with as many passages leading to the interior of the vessel; outlets which may, by

rotating the stopple, be opened or closed by being brought into or out of registration with passages leading-to the exterior; the inlets and; outlets being so situated 'with reference to the passages that they cannot beopen'contemporaneously; means for rotating the stopple, means for moving the piston, and means which prevents the stopple being rotated to open the inlet until the piston has been moved'to the-top of the recess.

7. A non-refillable receptacle comprising 1 in combination: a vessel having an opening,

a stopple closing said opening while being capable of rotation therein, and means for locking the stopple in the opening; a recess formed in the stopple, said recess being closed at the top and the bottom, the latter closure being a piston capable of movement to the top of but remaining wholly within the recess; one or more inlets which may by rotating the stopple be opened or closed by being brought into or out of registration with as'many passages leading to the interior of the vessel; outlets which may, by rotating the stopple, be opened or closed by being brought into or out of registration with passages leading to the exterior; the inlets and outlets being so situated with reference to the passages that they can not be open contemporaneously; an operating member attached to the piston whereby it may be moved, a connectlon between .the

piston and stopple which permits longitudinal movement of the piston in the stopple, but. causes them to rotate as a unit, a device which compels the movements of the piston tobe alternately longitudinal androtary, and means whereby retrograde movement by the piston or stopple is limited.

8. A non-refillable receptacle comprising in combination: a vessel .having an opening,

Washing a stopple closing said opening while being capable of rotation therein, and means for locking the stopplein. the opening; a recess formed in: the stopple, said recess being closed at the top and the bottom, the latter closure being a piston capable of movement to the top of but remaining wholly within the recess; inlets which may, by rotating the stopple, be opened or closed by being brought into or out of registration with passages leading to the interior of the vessel; one or more outlets which may, by rotating the stopple, be opened orclosed by being brought into or out of registration with as many passages leading to the exterior; the inlets and outlets being so situated with reference to the passages that they cannot be open :contemporaneously; an operating member attached to the piston whereby it may be'moved, a connection between the piston and stopple which permits longitudinal movement of the piston with reference to the stopple, but causes them to rotate as a unit, a device whereby the movements of the piston must be alternately longitudinal and rotary, and a ratchet and pawl mechanism which limits the amount of retro: grade movement the piston or stopple may make. 7 p

9. A non-refillable receptacle comprising in combination: a vessel having anopening, a stopple closing said opening while being capable of rotation therein, and means for locking the stopple in the'opening; a recess formed in the stopple, said recess being closed at top and bottom, the latter, closure being a piston capable of movementto the top of but remaining wholly within the recess; longitudinal slots in the wall of the stopple, and lateral projections on the piston which fit the slots and extend to the outer surface of the stoppl'e; passages which, when faced by a slot, form communication between the interior of the vessel and the recess; openings which, when faced by a ELMER F."DEETER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS H. FORD, F. K. Fassnr'r,

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